Charles Hammond

Charles Hammond was a British civil servant who served at the office of the Under-Secretary for Ireland Matthew Nathan at the time of the 1916 Easter Rising.

Biography
Charles Hammond was born in England, and he entered the British civil service and was sent to Dublin, Ireland to work for Under-Secretary for Ireland Matthew Nathan during World War I. Despite being married to Vanessa Hammond, he had an affair with his secretary May Lacy, impregnating her in 1916. In April of that year, he promised to run off with her to India or the United States, but the Easter Rising on 24 April interrupted their plans. Hammond sent Lacy to the safety of his house, where she awkwardly stayed with Vanessa, while he was kept at Dublin Castle by Under-Secretary Nathan so that he could oversee the suppression of the uprising.